Medieval Reality TV aka "The Canterbury Tales" for Taylor Swift Fans (After School Paid Preview)

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In this preview of our paid subscriber bonus episode, we’re diving deeper into The Canterbury Tales. Imagine Love Island but it's 1390, everyone's going on a religious road trip, and instead of coupling up, they're having a storytelling competition. That's The Canterbury Tales. Join us as we go a little deeper into Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, exploring how this 14th-century masterpiece was the original "common people's literature" and why these 600-year-old stories feel surprisingly modern. Spoiler alert: there's a lot more butt-kissing and fart jokes than you'd expect from "classic literature” or Taylor Swift songs.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
• Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, Claire Dederer
• Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
• Beowulf
• Netflix's The Decameron (2024)
• 1972 Italian film adaptation of The Canterbury Tales
• The Waiting Game, Nicola Clark
• J. K. Rowling, Chaucer’s Pardoner, and the Ethics of Reading

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